Standard

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Definition

  • The goal of standardization is to improve efficiency of actions and interactions.

There are various degrees of technical standards:

  1. "Real standards" of very high formal quality adopted by bodies such as ISO, IEE, IEC, ITU, etc.
  2. Standards like the W3C "Recommendations" or the IETF "Requests for Comments" (RFCs) or the OASIS document standards.
  3. De facto standards (usually no formalization at all) like Microsoft products.
  • Standards can be [[Wikipedia:Open standard�open]] or propriety. Open means publicly available, not necessarily free.


Standards in educational technology

Data standards

Pedagogical standards

Some technical standards of interest

General Standards for the Internet

There are various standardization bodies and procedures: